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Jesus Christ Appears to a Swede

THIS SECOND
COMING OF THE LORD IS EFFECTED BY MEANS OF A MAN TO WHOM THE LORD
HAS MANIFESTED HIMSELF IN PERSON, AND WHOM HE HAS FILLED WITH HIS SPIRIT,
THAT HE MAY TEACH THE DOCTRINES OF THE NEW CHURCH FROM THE LORD BY MEANS
OF THE WORD.

Since the Lord cannot manifest Himself in Person, as
shown just
above, and nevertheless has foretold that He was to come and establish
a new church, which is the New Jerusalem, it follows that He will do this
by means of a man, who is able not only to receive these doctrines in
his understanding but also to publish them by the press. That the Lord
manifested Himself before me, His servant, and sent me to this office,
that He afterward opened the eyes of my spirit and thus introduced me
into the spiritual world and granted me to see the heavens and the hells,
and to talk with angels and spirits, and this now continuously for several
years, I affirm in truth; as also that from the first day of that call
I have not received anything whatever pertaining to the doctrines of that
church from any angel, but from the Lord alone while I have read the Word.

In order that the Lord might be continuously present
with me He has unfolded to me the spiritual sense of His Word, wherein
is Divine truth in its very light, and it is in this light that He is
continually present. For His presence in the Word is by means of the spiritual
sense and in no other way; through the light of this sense He passes into
the obscurity of the literal sense, which is like what takes place when
the light of the sun in day-time is passing through an interposing cloud.
That the sense of the letter of the Word is like a cloud, and the spiritual
sense is the glory, the Lord Himself being the sun from which the light
comes, and that thus the Lord is the Word, has been shown above. That
"the glory" in which He is to come (Matt. 24:30), signifies Divine truth
in its light, in which light the spiritual sense of the Word is, can be
clearly seen from the following passages:

The voice of one crying in the desert, prepare ye the way of Jehovah;
the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it (Isaiah 40:3, 5).

In the beginning was the Word; in Him was life, and the life was the light of men. That was the true Light. And the Word was made flesh, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father (John 1:1, 4, 9, 14).

The glory of God will lighten the Holy Jerusalem, and the Lamb is the light thereof, and the nations that are saved shall walk in the light of it (Revelation 21:23, 24).

Besides in many other places. "Glory" signifies Divine
truth its fullness, because all that is magnificent in heaven is from
the light that goes forth from the Lord, and the light going forth from
Him as the sun there, is in its essence Divine truth.